“I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.” ThinkingMindArtActionTheoryFilmmaking Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.” ThinkingBornDiseaseBirdFlyingCages Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.” ThinkingMindPersonsDifferentRealityCommonVisionPsychology Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasEnoughCharacterBigsActorsNamesMinesEgoBig Ego Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingArtBookRealLiteratureLinesOpinionMillionsCenturyCommunicationArt IsIncrediblesInsult21st Century Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.” ThinkingWayNeedsPersonsYoungLeftLanguageSidesImaginationBrainSilenceUniversityIntuitionRationalSymbols Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself.” ThinkingRealizing Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.” IfsThinkingGoalAcceptingConceptsTransformationRemainsWingsAwakeningButterflyMarvelousAwakenedMetamorphosisDisappearanceCaterpillarsButterfly Wings Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” ThinkingBornFreedomBirdMetaphorIllIllnessFlyingFlightAviationSpiritual WisdomCagesBeing FreeBird FlyingBirds In Flight Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
